The faculty and students of the Hanover College History Department
initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project in 1995, at a time when few
primary sources were available outside of published anthologies. To make
primary texts readily available for classroom use, they selected important
documents, scanned print versions that were out of copyright, converted
the scans into HTML format, proofread the resulting documents to correct
OCR errors, edited them to provide page breaks, page numbers, and
bibliographical information, and posted them online. We have since
expanded the collection to include transcriptions of manuscript material
from the Hanover College archives.

Most of the texts in the Hanover Historical Texts Collection are in
public domain. However, the electronic forms of public domain texts that
we have created for the Collection are under copyright. We grant
permission to copy and use items in the Hanover Historical Texts
Collection for educational purposes; we ask that you acknowledge the
Hanover Historical Texts Collection. We do not grant permission for
commercial uses.

Bibliographical information and acknowledgements for scanning, conversion
into html, and proofreading are found at the beginning of each text. Page
numbers appear in square brackets [ ] at the point of the page breaks in
the original texts.

Transcriptions of Manuscripts Held in the Hanover
College Archives

The following are the results of various student projects in
transcribing archival material housed at the Duggan Library. Elias Riggs
Monfort and Charles Alling, Jr., are Hanover alumni, but others on this
list have more tenuous connections to the college.

Documents from the Duggan Library's Archive
are under the copyright of Hanover College. Permission is granted to
copy and use the documents for educational purposes, though not for
commercial purposes. More information on manuscripts in the Hanover
College Archives is available here.